Word: traction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy during World War II, Eames developed a traction splint-a natural outgrowth of his investigations in wood form and function. This led to what the Herman Miller Company catalogue called "America's most famous modern chair" -two doubly curved molded plywood components, one for the seat and the other for the back, which were connected with rubber shock mounts to the plywood and bent steel rod legs. The aristocrat of the Eames family is the black, leather-up-holstered lounge chair, but what became every man's chair was Eames' molded fiberglass stacking chair...
...sort of description she and her sisters despise, for the movement rejects the notion of leaders and heroines as creations of the media?and mimicry of the ways that men use to organize their world. Despite the fact that it is essentially a polemic suspended awkwardly in academic traction, Sexual Politics so far has sold more than 15,000 copies and is in its fourth printing...
...Navy during World War II. Eames developed a traction splint- a natural outgrowth of his investigations in wood form and function. This led to what the Herman Miller Company called "America's most famous chair"- two doubly curved molded plywood components, one for the seat and the other for the back, which were connected with rubber shock mounts to the plywood and bent steel rod legs. The aristocrat of the Eames tamily is the black leather-upholstered lounge chair, but what became every man's chair was Fames' molded fiberglass stacking chair...
...asphalt's overall cohesiveness so that it does not split when roadbeds shift slightly or sink. Bynum's findings seem to be a natural outgrowth of experiments by the rubber industry. Goodyear, for example, has discovered that liquid latex-not a waste product-improves the durability and traction of highway pavement...
...little talk. Then they break, and Ahern and Delisle skate back to defense, and Carrigan, Riley and Cusack cruise to center ice for the face-off, while Conroy skates from side to side in the goalie's crease, roughing up the ice purposely he he'll get the proper traction. Now it's just Carrigan and Morrill, from Southie, all alone in the face-off circle, and the ref drops the puck, and the arguments are about to be settled...